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- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the population. Large companies and highly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) sees the global influence of HBS as a key to creating change in the world, a view that is informed by his experiences growing up in the United Arab Emirates, his time at HBS, and his current... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
Television (both owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.), paid in excess of $22 million to acquire the film's global distribution rights. Students are asked to make some of the same cost-to-benefit analyses considered by Singh and his team:... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
competitive global economy, US manufacturing can thrive only if it is at the leading edge of knowledge. History provides some guidelines for making sure the NNMI lives up to its potential: Have a broad agenda: Government-funded research... View Details
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
economy, it's getting more essential that global executives learn their way around Chinese cultural customs in order to be successful in that country. While every country has its version of the "old boys network" that defines... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard Business School associate professor Walter Kuemmerle. The firm must... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
experiences. Klump’s experience is a reminder of just how complicated, on a personal level, globalization and managing across cultures can be. On the one hand, the world seems small and interconnected, thanks to high-speed technology,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society
During the 2009 global recession, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) helped Ford Motor Company avoid government-financed bankruptcy. Now, as president and CEO, he is focused on serving customers around the globe with great products while building a... View Details
Intriguing Questions
studying Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Business Administration at Harvard Business School. During my time at HBS, I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to take Professor Geoff Jones’s Entrepreneurship and Global... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
commercial hub. Q: On the larger topic of Africa, which appears to have been left behind in the globalization movement, where do you see Africa heading over the next twenty years, in terms of economic development? A: Hopefully, the next... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
overall competitiveness, the report identifies national competitive strengths and weaknesses, highlights global economic trends, and signals the ingredients of successful economic development. The Index is part of the research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
A World of Support
HBS Fund Supports the School’s Global Interests “No other management school has the global reach of HBS or a similar global brand power.” Gaëtan Hannecart (MBA 1994) View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
"five contexts framework"—issues to consider, in essence—to understand institutional variations between countries. We excerpt a summary of the five contexts. As we helped companies think through their globalization strategies,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
firm. China and Globalization The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society by Douglas Guthrie (Routledge) This book is about the economic reforms sweeping across China over the last 25 years. Visiting Professor... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
covers an impressive amount of territory, for the energetic Juliber, it's only a start. "One of the main challenges for a global company is how to accelerate the transfer of experience and information from one part of the world to... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
unparalleled at teaching science and engineering. But to move the country forward in a global environment, Chinese parents, and to some extent government leaders, recognize the value of an American-style liberal arts education in building... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
Making Sense of Past and Present
the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism course. Since graduating from high school, I had missed learning about the rich content of the past and its “wow” moments of surprise, especially when history reveals the darkest realities of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry complaints that new global capital requirements will reduce... View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
The global beauty business is a $450 billion industry, yet it received little serious scholarly attention until Geoffrey G. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, published Beauty Imagined: A History of the View Details